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According to the public trustee of the Medicare program, the elimination of the Affordable Care Act wouldn’t just spell doom for “Obamacare,” but for Medicare and the entirety of the country’s ailing health care system. —TPM (complete article)

“In 2010, more than 9 out of 10 PPFA’s services going specifically to pregnant women were abortion,” National Right to Life president Carol Tobias wrote in a recent opinion column. “Roughly half of those abortions are performed on unborn girls. That’s the real war on women.” –HuffPost (article)

Eeeeuh, tofu! I hear you squealing. And, if you’re not just reacting to the name of the stuff, you’re thinking of that slimy white square you found floating in the dishwater-like “miso soup” that came with your last sushi.

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Actually, tofu comes in all kinds of shapes and textures. The tofu we had today was firm slabs, coated with panko flakes and fried to a crispy brown, then topped with marinara sauce. Delicious.

But it’s the name that turns you off, so we must find a new name.

New name? you say. What’s with renaming stuff, just to give it a better image?

But don’t you have veal scalopini, and aren’t those scallops really veal, which is a calf? Your steak is really beef with is actually cow or, rather, castrated bull-children. Your pork is pig. You rename your food all the time, to disguise what it really is.

So, a different way to talk of tofu. Soy cutlets. Vegetable curd squares. Plant meat.